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Saturday, June 12, 2010

Finished!

It's finished! I absolutely love the way this turned out. It measures 76 inches x 67 inches, and is by far the largest quilt I've made! I think my arms were actually sore from moving this bad boy around while quilting.

It's so bright and just looks like it belongs on a beach somewhere! I don't know that I'll actually let anyone use it on the beach for fear of it getting ruined (haha) but I think I at least need to take it to the beach and get some pics of it at home on the sand.

Here's a pic of the back of the quilt. I used a few of the leftover blocks from the front and sashed them with some Kona Charcoal and then used a bright aqua for the rest of the back. The picture doesnt show it very well, but it shows off the stippling wonderfully!

I've determined that I really hate hand sewing the binding. I came across this tutorial from Rita at Red Pepper Quilts and have been using it to machine sew my binding on the last few quilting projects I've done. I think I've gotten progressively better on each quilt, and this time I didnt even have to go back and resew any parts of the binding! Its much quicker and much less of a pain in the butt than hand sewing, and I think it looks pretty good.

Thanks for the link to the binding tutorial. I really don't mind binding by hand, but in the summer months a quilt is really too warm to hold on your lap, so it would be nice to have a good alternative.

What fun blocks! You are right, this looks like it belongs on a beach, for sure. When I saw the back I actually thought it looked like the black sand beaches in Hawaii, with the bright blue water and four beach towels laid out in a row. Nice work!

This is beautiful! The black and white print squares really ground the brights and provide ballance. Love it! I have been using the Red Pepper binding method and I love it! I detest hand sewing it on and I do a cruddy job and her method saved me!

That is so beautiful!! The colors just really pop out at you - and your back is great! I like hand sewing the back of my binding - it's usually the last time I get to "commune" with the quilt before I send it off to another home - but I can understand how it can be tedious. Your machine bindings look great!

Awesome finish. Yeah I tried machine binding too a couple of times now, not for a large quilt but just smaller projects. It's a quick learning curve and I agree that the results are good. I still stick with hand binding for most of my projects because I like the look of it more. But some projects are great for machine binding :).

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